Darra's Breakfast Recipes.

 

Many of our guests over the years have asked us for the recipes for the different dish's that we serves with breakfast, so here they are a sample.

 

Brown Soda Bread

• 10 oz of whole meal flour
• 6 oz of plain flour
• 3/4 teaspoon Bread Soda
• 1/2 teaspoon Salt
• 1/2 pint of Sour Milk or Butter Milk.

Put Bread Soda into the palm of your hand and press out any lumps with your fingers. Sieve the plain flour, soda and salt into a large bowl. Add the whole meal flour. Make a well in the centre of the flour and pour in most of the milk. Mix to a loose dough adding more milk if needed. Turn the dough into a floured board and knead until the side next to the board is smooth. Turn the smooth side over and flatten out. Cut a cross in the top with a floured knife and place dough on a greased loaf tin. Bake in a hot oven for about 45 minutes until the bread sounds hollow.

Banana Bread.

• 250g ripe bananas mashed
• 250g sugar
• 1 pinch of salt
• 2 eggs
• 250g self raising flour
• 30ml olive oil
• 10g baking powder
• 65ml milk

Cream mashed bananas and sugar in a mixing bowl, add eggs and walnuts, baking powder, flour, salt, olive oil and milk. Put in a greased loaf tin.Cook at 160 C for 40 45 minutes.

Plum and Rhubarb crumble

• 2oz. butter.
• 1/2 teaspoon Bread Soda.
• 1 bunch rhubarb.
• 4oz brown sugar
• 1 tblsp runny honey
• 6-8 cardmon pods
• 1 cinnmon stick
• 1 strip of a lemon
• 8 - 12 plumbs

Put all these ingredients into a sauce pan and simmer on the hob.

 

For The Topping

• 11 ozs plain flour
• 3 ozs. light brown sugar
• 2 tsp. ground cinnimon
• 7 ozs. butter melted.

Melt butter, add sugar and put all ingredients together and make fine breadcrumbs. Turn the smooth side over and flatten out. Put rhubarb mixture into dish and cover with the topping. Cook in oven for about 25 minutes at 180 C.